Boardwalk empire

I have just finished watching season 2 and WTF? they have ruined it

Why the $#@! did they kill off Jimmy, he was what made the show. It does not make sense, what was the point in Jimmy helping Nucky to make things right if he was to kill him, he should of killed his brother. They have ruined it now and I don't think I will be watching season 3.

What are your thoughts on the ending on season 2?

Last edited by berts08; 06-29-2012 at 08:37.

“Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” Arthur C. Clarke

Big fan of the show. I was upset about the ending as well but when you let it sink in it actually makes sense. It was an honest way to end the season. I also liked this interview with the creator of the show where its explained it further.

Obviously, we have to start with Jimmy's death. Was that something that was always planned, or was it a Tony Blundetto situation (from Winter's time on "The Sopranos") where you realized at some point down the line that it had gone too far, and Nucky would not let this stand?

It was more of a Tony Blundetto situation for us. It's funny: I never really thought of it in those terms, and it's ironic that Tony Blundetto is the one killed him. But it was really the latter. Once we started plotting the season out, when we were honest with ourselves, we said, if the idea was to bring Nucky from (Jimmy telling him) "You can't be half a gangster anymore" to the point where he crosses the line and is engaging in gangster behavior himself, meaning he's the guy who pulls the trigger, if we're telling that story honestly, there was no way Jimmy could survive this, and moreso, if Nucky's going to be a gangster, he's got to be the one to pull the trigger. Otherwise, he's still delegating things to people.

We waffled. Once we started to come to that conclusion, there was a good number of months where we really wrestled with it, asking, "Is there any way? Can he kill someone else? Let Jimmy off the hook?" And the honest answer kept coming back to "No, this is it." It ended up working out for us in a way. Just given the fact that episodic TV being what it is, the audience is so in tune to the rhythm of things: Okay, well, they'll never kill a main character. If this happens, it'll happen in season five. You're always trying to stay ahead of them and defy expectations. In a way, it's great. My hope is that as soon as Jimmy sees Nucky and says, "I want to make things right," everyone's going to say, "Oh, $#@!, he's gonna take him back now and it's all forgiven," and then at the end, that's not the case at all. I'm really hoping to piss a lot of people off early in the hour who think this is phony and we're just trying to undo the situation we just spent 12 episodes creating.

In that way, it really serves the storytelling in a big way. In another way, you're taking a stick of dynamite to a major character and a big part of the first two seasons' arc. Jimmy's obviously one of the co-leads of the series. For me, that's the challenge of what we do. Okay, now where do we go from here? You introduce new people, new conflicts and life goes on from there. It's alternately scary and challenging at the same time.

I love BE and, funnily only saw the last episode yesterday! Although i accidently got told the ending which sort of ruined it for me.

I think they went a bit far with whjat Jimmy did at the end of the penultimate episode, although after the stroke i guess there's a limit to how much he could add to the story line. Also I have read that Season three goes forward 10-15 years, so this season was always going to have to wrap up a lot of loose ends.

Fortunately for me, i really like Rothstein, and obviously Al Capone is a great character in history, so the story will hopefully progress with (kind of) new character developments. Can't wait, think season three is coming out in Fall?

Harrow taking out Manny Horvitz and others. Didn't think Nucky was going to take out Roland Smith the way he did, especially when the kid asked to work for him. Loved how Capone took out the guy in the bar.

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